Decree Law No. 25659 creating the crime of treason.

Decree Law No. 25659 of August 13, 1992 created the crime of treason, denaturalizing its traditional conception and limiting it to a legal denomination of the aggravated type of the crime of terrorism. The law established that treason is committed by those who use car bombs, explosive devices or weapons of war that cause death or injury, as well as by those who belong to the leadership group of a terrorist organization or are members of armed groups for physical elimination. The Constitutional Court determined that the legislator removed the content of the crime of terrorism and placed it in the type of treason, allowing that the same act could be subsumed in any of the criminal types and judged alternatively by military courts or ordinary jurisdiction. The Inter-American Court pointed out that the crime of treason in law has nothing to do with terrorism, since the former protects the independence, sovereignty or integrity of the nation.